Athena used her scholarship to help pay for her fees at the University of Southhampton where she received her Ph.D. in 2009, focusing her research on marine resource exploitation during the Roman period in northern Morocco. Between 2009 and 2013 she was a curator in research and maritime archaeology at the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, and since 2014, is employed as an associate professor in the maritime archaeology program in the Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the director of the Morocco Maritime Research Group and co-director of the Montenegrin Maritime Archaeology Rescue Project as well as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Maritime Archaeology. She continues to work on field projects in Denmark, Germany, Morocco, Montenegro, Turkey, Greece, and Iran. Athena has continued her dive education, receiving a commercial dive license in 2010 from the Danish Maritime Authority, and in 2011 a Surface-supplied Inshore Air Diver (30m), Hard-hat Diver (30m), Nitrox and Swedish Navy dive training certifications. Since 2013 she has been an instructor for the Danish Maritime Authority commercial dive license. She contributed the chapter on Dive Safety to the book Manual for Activities Directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage: Guidelines to the Annex of the UNESCO 2001 Convention. T. Maarleveld, U. Guérin & B. Eggers (eds). UNESCO: Paris, 2013. “I am very appreciative of WDHOF support with the scholarship I received in 2006. The attached photo of me was taking during commercial dive work in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark, while I was employed as a curator in maritime archaeology at the Viking Ship Museum, January 2011.”